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Why do many Chinese resumes and profiles show the applicants blood type?
Why do many Chinese resumes and profiles show the applicants blood type?
Very different then an American resume, we also do not put our date or birth, age, sexual gender, or picture. I can understand why an employer may want the above, but blood type? I cannot understand...
Very different then an American resume, we also do not put our date or birth, age, sexual gender, or picture. I can understand why an employer may want the above, but blood type? I cannot understand...
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In many parts of Asia, namely Japan and Korea, though sometimes in China as well, people think your blood type affects your personality and character. Certain blood types are thought to be more reckless and less responsible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture
These kind of prejudices can influence an employer's decision much as looks (based on photo), gender, age, etc can.
These kind of prejudices can influence an employer's decision much as looks (based on photo), gender, age, etc can.
As I just finished my job hunting, I'd say I never was asked to give blood type. Maybe as Marie-Hélène said upstairs, for some special job there is an emergency need.
In reality, only a few jobs really need blood type information.
If the HR manager choose a resumes/profiles template, his subordinates
wouldn't change it during recruitment, why he want to know blood
types of the job hunters partly because he belives in blood type
theories Toffler mentioned above.
If he doesn't assign what the template would look like, his
subordinates usually try to get as much information as they can, so
that they can fulfil their tasks perfetly, because China is a country
that don't care about privacy very much.
Another possibility is all the oppents of this company require the
blood type information. If he doen't know it, he would be far behind
on information field.
Anyhow, we don't look on it as " prejudices", because Chinese
bussiness market are full of oppotunists and blood type theory really
help a HR manager manage his groups more efficiently.
If the HR manager choose a resumes/profiles template, his subordinates
wouldn't change it during recruitment, why he want to know blood
types of the job hunters partly because he belives in blood type
theories Toffler mentioned above.
If he doesn't assign what the template would look like, his
subordinates usually try to get as much information as they can, so
that they can fulfil their tasks perfetly, because China is a country
that don't care about privacy very much.
Another possibility is all the oppents of this company require the
blood type information. If he doen't know it, he would be far behind
on information field.
Anyhow, we don't look on it as " prejudices", because Chinese
bussiness market are full of oppotunists and blood type theory really
help a HR manager manage his groups more efficiently.
It was on the news from one of the TV stations in Nanjing. A city with population over hundred thousands, but only few hundreds people are blood type "O". Some of these people may have moved outside of the city, only hundred people remain in the city. For emergency concerned, these people has been proposed to keep tracking. Logically, it appears that the resumes and profiles show the applicants blood type is to attract the employers' preference. On the other hand, the employers may be either in compliance of the law or being influenced by others.
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